Mouthpiece for tobacco-pipes, &amp;c.



PATENTBD JUNE 6, 1905.

A y c; PETERSON;

MOUTHPIEGB POR TOBAGGU PIPES, am,

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 2. 1904.

f No. 791,495.

s, I UNITED STATES Patented J' une 6, 1905.

PATENT CEEICE.

MouTHPl'EcE FOR lroBAooo-PlPliaac.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 791,495,6.ated June 6, 1905, Application tiled January 2, 1904:. Serial No. 187,432.

To all whom t may concern# Be it known that I, CHARLES PETERSON, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 111 Grafton street, Dublin, Ireland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mouthpieces for Tobacco-Pipes, Cigar Holders, and Cigarette Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in mouthp'ieces of tobacco-pipes, cigarholders, and cigarette-holders; and it consists in forming or'providing the lip ends of suoli mouthpieces with ribs, ridges, or equivalents, so that when the tongue rests on or against these ribs, ridges, or equivalents there will be channels orspaces between the tongue and the actual lip to permit the passage or circulation of smoke and air between them.

Another important advantage attained by the lip being formed or provided with the ribs, ridges, or equivalents is that when the tongue rests on or against these ribs, ridges, or the like the passage of the smoke from the usual orifice or slit in the lip into the mouth is not prevented,4 and, further, if the lip be formed with a slit through which the smoke enters the mouth and if' the ribs, ridges, or equivalents be properly formed the latter will very materially assist in insuring a uniform spreading or difusionfof the smoke in the mouth.

In order that my invention may be readily understood, I have illustrated several forms thereof von an enlarged scale in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures l, 2, and 3 are a plan View and front and side elevations,respectively, of one form of my invention. Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 2, but the lip is in this instance shown with a central aperture instead of a slit through which the smoke enters the mouth; and Figs. 5 and 6 show alternative formsV of my invention, the former being a plan View and the latter a side elevation.

In carrying my invention into practice, I form the lip end A of a mouthpiece B with ribs, ridges, or equivalents C. These ridges or equivalents are preferably made vertical, about as shown in Figs. 1 to 5, and for the sake of cheapness also parallel to each other, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4, and they project a suiicient distance from the actual body or main part of thelip so that when the tongue rests on them there will be channels or passages D between the tongue and the main part of the lip to permit the passage or circulation of smoke and air between them.

/The lip may have the usual orifice E (shown in Fig. 4) for the passage of the smoke into the mouth, said orifice being situated between two ridges, so that when the tongue rests against these ridges said orifice will not be closed thereby, the free passage of the smoke into the mouth being permitted.

It is obvious that the ridges'C may be formed on an ordinary lip by cutting grooves therein to form the passages D, and if said ordinary lip have an orifice E one of the grooves should be formed across said orifice. Further, said ridges may be formed at any desired angle. If the lip has a longitudinal slit F, it is of considerable advantage that the ridges be made at about right angles thereto, as the smoke will be more equably anduniformly spread or diffused in the mouth by reason of the outlet of the slit into the mouth 'being of a zigzag form, as will be understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 2.

' Fig. 5 shows a lip having vertical ridges; but instead of these ridges being parallel, as in Fig. l, they diverge as from acommon center; and in Fig. 6 a lip is shown having horizontal ridges, two of these ridges having transverse grooves made across them, so as to leave a series of conical protuberanccs Cr projecting from the lip.

While I have shown several forms of ridges or equivalents and have shown the ridges running in various directions, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to any particular shape of ridge or protuberance,

nor to any particular direction in which these yridges or the like run, although for practical holders and cigarette-holders e lip having a ing from said lip and across' said slit for I0 series of ridges projecting therefrom said the purposes and substantially as set forth.

ridges forming e series of passages or ehen- 1n testimony Whereoflhzive signed my nume nels between them and over the surface of to this speeilication in the presence of two sub- 5 said lip substantially as set forth. soribing Witnesses.

2. In mouthpieees for tobacco-pipes, eigar- CHARLES PETERSON. holders and cigarette-holders having a, lip Witnesses: formed with a slit through which the smoke ALFRED H. KAM),

enters the mouth, a series of ridges projeot- J. M. THOMAS. 

